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The
Inaugural Volume 1, Issue 1
December 16, 2009 – January 16, 2010
Issue A Califia Territory Publication
T
he Moorish Star
and promised by the hand of the history, it is not subject to erasure LOCAL
Almighty. nor is it sentenced to forfeiture of
What Is The Moorish
is produced with
The legacy of the Moorish ancestry. It awaits you to proclaim
the intention of
informing its Moorish people about
Empire remains only partially it and stand in the footprints of American National
their nationality and events which
unveiled. The reference to your forefathers and mothers.
Group? ...2
Moors has been relegated to a The Moorish Star recognizes
effect their communities locally,
mere footnote in textbooks, a the need for denationalized Moors REGIONAL & NATIONAL
nation-wide and internationally.
Standing on the principles of
cursory historical factoid, briefly to have their own media forum and Know Thyself ...3
Moorish Star Media Launches
mentioned (if at all), or labeled outlet, for which information can
truth, peace, justice and freedom,
an ethnological disappearing act. be disseminated about the various
this newsletter is a product of an
Only a small percentage of our initiatives from several Moorish Online News Website ...3
Urban Garden Initiative Takes
upright and pure nation finding its
groups within the Moorish
way back to their rightful place at
the helm of humanity.
movement. Root ...3
The Moorish Star is one
To uplift humanity is a charge
of many initiatives created by
mandated by supreme authority .ORTH
the Moorish Nationals of the The Importance Of
of the great Creator. This mandate !MEXEM
Califia Territory to liberate those Proclaiming Your
Nationality ...3
is thereby inherited and carried
unaware, unify other Consulates
out as a life-long purpose. Thus,
to uplift humanity is a charge
and Moorish groups nationally
INTERNATIONAL
and internationally thus bringing
welcomed.
people have knowledge of our us together on one accord. U.N. General Assembly
Considers Restitution of
To uplift our brothers and
antiquity through the conquests We ascertain that all knowledge
sisters ignorant of their ancestry is
a challenge faced with the utmost
of Spain, Portugal, and Italy etc., included in this newspaper is Cultural Property ...4
however, this still is not the full accurate, provides valid sources
divine love. This task is done in the
scope of the Moorish legacy. and addresses any discrepancies.
face of adversity and with diligence.
Shrouded in secrecy, the We do not participate in slander, Bahian Brazilians Face
This newspaper is a manifestation
heritage of the Moors here in libel or perjury. Discrimination ....4
of our will to assist those unaware
of their Moorish roots.
North America, Central America, The Moorish Star’s sole Bolivia Urges Slavery Of
Acceptance of the misnomer/
South America and all adjoining purpose is to provide a beacon of
Indigenous People In Chaco
Region To End ...5
islands has been withheld from light in the darkness.
classification of African-American,
the indigenous inhabitants
Black, Negro or Colored has
of these continents. In this VOICE OF WISDOM
allowed our people to be subject
omission of history, they have Sis. Dhiya Khephra Ptah El
to obscene abuses, and gross
accepted misnomers to their own Minister of Information “Our Nation’s Unification” ...5
violations against inalienable
unknowing detriment. The Moorish Star, EIC
natural rights. The use of such
Page 2 The Moorish Star
What Is The Moorish National Group?
S
everal brothers and sisters LIFE. of our Moorish people.
who want to join “The Divine
National Movement of North • We are NOT a Moorish Science • We ARE a national indigenous
America” want to know in certain terms Temple of America (MSTA). group.
what is the Moorish National Group
(M.N.G.). It’s best to distinguish this These few important distinctions • We ARE committed to
sovereign collective by perhaps first serve to eliminate a degree of confusion fulfilling the prophesies of our
defining what we are not. attributed to our obscurity (yet fully forefathers and foremothers.
known in the proper channels). Moorish
• We are NOT a cult, religious American Nationals are a legally valid • We ARE honoring our
organization or a non-profit and operational movement based on the “mothers and fathers”
organization. natural right to have a nationality. (ancestors) in reestablishing the
Negro, Blacks & Colored (now spiritual tenets/ principles of
• We are NOT a religion. called African-Americans and referred Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom
to as NBCs) have never acquired nor and Justice. Hence we assume
• We are NOT affiliated with proclaimed a nationality or true identity. our original role of creators,
any groups who would seek to We, along with other select national harmonizers, and promoting
destroy, murder or promote groups, work in the unifying goal to unveil life—to be lived freely and
violence. this vital fact to those unaware of such a abundantly for our people.
right. The M.N.G. is then solely defined
• We are NOT a radical ‘black’ within this simple yet all the more • We ARE an ally to all our
identity movement, nor, a ‘black’ complex goal. Moorish family – nationally and
supremacy group. For ‘black’ internationally.
is defined as ‘death’ and our • We ARE a body of Moors, who
divine movement is one of address the affairs and concerns
United Nations –
Mirroring the international
community’s growing awareness of the
trauma that people and their Governments
suffered when their cultural properties were
stolen or trafficked, the General Assembly
today considered a draft resolution that
asked Member States to actively cooperate
in returning displaced cultural artefacts to
their rightful home countries.
In a morning debate that covered topics
ranging from the security implications of
climate change to encouraging development
by curbing armed violence, the Assembly
also adopted a consensus resolution on
follow-up to the commemoration of the
two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition
of the transatlantic slave trade.
Introducing a revised version of a text
first put before the Assembly on November
2, Jamaica’s representative said it was
fitting that delegations were taking action
today, which was recognized by the United
Nations system as the International Day
of Tolerance. The resolution welcomed
the initiative of the member states of the
Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to place
a permanent memorial at United Nations
Headquarters in acknowledgement of the
centuries-long tragedy of the transatlantic
slave trade and in consideration of the
legacy left by the transatlantic slave trade.
It also welcomed the creation of a
committee of interested States to oversee
the memorial project in collaboration with
United Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization (UNESCO),
representatives of the Secretariat, the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black
Culture of the New York Public Library,
and civil society. The resolution also
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moving together towards greater action returning cultural properties was a matter of hands.
to safeguard the return and restitution of ethics and fundamental moral principles. Efforts in preventing the removal of
cultural property to the countries of origin. “The return of displaced cultural and trafficking in cultural property needed
By that text, to be acted on at a later properties is a fundamental means of the help. Such efforts were made more
date, the Assembly would urge Member restoring and reconstructing people’s difficult when cultural property was not
States to introduce effective national heritage and and identity. It embodies under the jurisdiction of the country of
and international measures to prevent an inalienble attribute of every people’s origin, which “punished” those nations that
and combat illicit trafficking in cultural sovereignty that they should have access had the least resources.
property, including publicizing legislation to and enjoy irreplaceable symbols of their For its part, Peru was recovering
and offering special training for police, heritage,” stated Kuma. cultural property and, thanks to cooperation
customs and border services. It would China’s representative, Liu Zhenmin, with other countries, had recovered pieces
also invite Member States, in cooperation called the illicit appropriation and of invaluable importance.
with the UNESCO, to continue to draw trafficking of cultural property “a sacrilege” In addition, Peru was pleased to
up systematic inventories of their cultural and said the global community had to prevent return three clay tablets to Iraq, seized from
property, as well as work towards the all aspects, whether through auctions or international traffickers, efforts taken,
creation of a database of their national other activities, of such trafficking. not only to comply with international
cultural legislation, in particular in “Such symbols of identity of a nation agreements, but with understanding they
electronic format. or people or cultural property represent were a moral imperative.
Ethiopia’s delegate, Kenea Kuma, a valuable asset of human civilization. In that context, he underscored Peru’s
was also optimistic about the international Illegal approriation runs counter to the efforts to recover pieces from Machu
community’s progress in that area and spirit of international treaties and infringes Pichu, which remained illlegally at Yale
pointed to Italy’s return of the Axum on cultural rights,” Zhenmin said. University. He lamented that dialogue had
Obelisk as a new chapter in its relations Peru’s Luis Enrique Chavez said not born fruit and it was necessary to take
with Italy. cultural property allowed nations to forge legal action. He urged redoubling efforts
Ethiopia, which suffered from an identity, and peoples to develop as to resolve such disputes through friendly
repeated lootings and systematic smuggling individuals in a society. States had the negotiations.
of its cultural heritage dating back to the right to protect such property, a task that The Assembly adopted the resolution,
religious wars of the sixteenth century, could not be undertaken in isolation, since introduced on November 2, 2009, by
strongly believed that cooperation in only part of cultural property was in State consensus without a vote.
Russell Simmons,
‘Goodwill
Ambassador’
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animals—items that are NOT considered
human.
Furthermore, are you aware that
the issues NBCs have fought, bled and
died for, such as inequality, civil rights
(as distinctly different from unalienable
rights), economic stratification and
poverty levels are eliminated or become
obsolete when you proclaim your
nationality?
What if, all you had to do was declare
that you are NOT a fictitious label
engineered for enslavement? And doing
this one act could ultimately remove you
from all such previous ill treatment…
Noble Drew Ali knew the secret
to drastically improving the status and
treatment of his people. He prepared
for our people, an exit from this system
through providing us with our true,
indigenous, and sovereign, ancient name
of Moor.
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VOICE OF WISDOM
Bro. Tehuti Al Ma’at Taharqa El
Columnist of The Moorish Star
I
A foundation must be set among of looking for one great leader—as the
n a recent conversation with all Moorish groups! Although this Negroes do—and surpass the methods
a young Moorish Sister, she is a daunting task, we all must agree that brought us to the present dilemma
posed this question to me. that adherence to a universal path of plaguing our Moorish people.
I had often wondered when I began proclaiming one’s nationality must be Perhaps, confronting issues that
this journey, why was there so much established. We must also agree to that would rather be railroaded, is a start to
confusion about the whole process of foundation and do so without a central mending these detrimental gaps in our
proclaiming one’s nationality. spokesperson or figurehead. nations unification.
In the aforementioned example, It is time to leave behind the days
the woman knew that proclaiming her
nationality was of vital importance,
however, she did not exactly know how
to go about doing it. All of her sources
said different things. Some groups told
her contradictory instructions and she
found herself lost…yet again.
Mobilization rests in the ability
to effectively communicate with each
other.
Various Moorish groups long-
standing disagreements with one another
on what to teach has left our nation—and
its subsequent generations of young
Moors— fragmented, disjointed and in
disarray.
More often, young Moorish
Nationals have come with their eyes
open and with willingness in their hearts
to finish the work Nobel Drew Ali began
but they have been left directionless.
It is these young Moors that often
are discouraged in the journey to become
their upright selves. Yet a legitimate issue
may be tackled through acknowledging
those stubborn elders who know that
the young will arrive as prophesized
by Noble Drew Ali, and “seat the older
Moors to the back,” In knowing this
prophesy many elders refuse to listen to
the young.
The Moorish nation’s lack of
cohesion and inability to distinguish
‘what is what’ leaves our people
seeking the knowledge of history and
nationality without a foothold of solid
comprehension or clarity.
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